He was being accused All the things were true He’d been stealing the money From the charity For a very long time I’m not good at forgiveness Got to live with it, got to deal with it Keep going With an arm’s length of loveContinue Reading

Belfast, Maine: Alex meets a potter named Dehmie and they become friends. She makes and glazes a colorful oval pot as a gift for him. Alex senses that the gift may be a sort of communication between two like-minded artists.

Dehmie calls the clay pot a “boat” as she gives it to him and says, “Whenever you look at this boat, think of how I believe in you.”

Alex told this story to Khalid and Will, who collaborated with him to create this documentary song. The recording is a run-through after the first draft of the song was completed.Continue Reading

As part of the Documentary Art Project, this song was selected by Anna French for creating a series of panels. The song was written before documentary songwriting became an established method. It expresses Hannah Batley and Malcolm Brooks’s approach to life.